Alison Lapper MBE is a celebrated artist, but is probably best known for being the subject of a very famous piece of art, a Marc Quinn sculpture that rested on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar square, and caused uproar at the time. The statue depicted Alison, in her ‘limbless body’, no arms and very short legs, heavily pregnant with her son Parys. Parys was born abled bodied and healthy. His birth was the beginning of nearly two decades of Alison feeling like she had to prove herself capable as a